"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (film) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American black comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" by Edward Albee. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey. The film was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Mike Nichols, and is one of only two films to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards (the other"
"Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a 1978 television play by Alan Bennett, produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stephen Frears. The title of the play is a parody of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", which in turn plays on the title of the Disney song ""Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"". It tells the story of Trevor (Neville Smith), a teacher of English Literature to adults in the evenings. Trevor is not a happy man; his girlfriend gets her hair in her muesli, someone has vandalised his visual aids"
"and this cheers him up greatly, making him see himself in a new light. It is hinted that there might be a future, gay romance between Trevor and Skinner. Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf is a 1978 television play by Alan Bennett, produced by London Weekend Television and directed by Stephen Frears. The title of the play is a parody of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", which in turn plays on the title of the Disney song ""Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"". It tells the story of Trevor (Neville Smith), a"
"""Three Little Pigs"" (1933), substituting the name of the celebrated English author Virginia Woolf. Martha and George repeatedly sing this version of the song throughout the play. ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. It is frequently revived on the modern stage. The film adaptation was released in 1966, written by Ernest Lehman, directed by Mike Nichols, and starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, George Segal and Sandy Dennis. George and Martha engage in dangerous emotional games. George is an associate professor"
"figure in their lives. George and Martha's chance at a perfect family was ruined by infertility and George's failure at becoming a prominent figure at the university. Being just a few of many, these examples directly challenge social expectations both within and outside of a family setting. The play's title, which alludes to the English novelist Virginia Woolf, is also a reference to the song ""Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"" from Walt Disney's animated version of ""The Three Little Pigs"". Because the rights to the Disney song are expensive, most stage versions, and the film, have Martha sing"
"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? ""Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf"" is a popular song written by Frank Churchill with additional lyrics by Ann Ronell, which originally featured in the 1933 Disney cartoon ""Three Little Pigs"", where it was sung by Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig (voiced by Mary Moder and Dorothy Compton) as they arrogantly believe their houses of straw and twigs will protect them from the Big Bad Wolf (voiced by Billy Bletcher). The song's theme made it a huge hit during the 1930s and it remains one of the most well-known Disney songs, being"
"Leonard Wolf Leonard Wolf is a poet, author, teacher, and the father of Naomi Wolf. He is known for his authoritative annotated editions of classic gothic horror novels, including ""Dracula"", ""Frankenstein"", ""The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""The Phantom of the Opera"", and critical works on the topic, as well as Yiddish translations of works ranging from those of Isaac Bashevis Singer to Winnie the Pooh. Born in Vulcan, Romania (Transylvania), Leonard was originally named 'Ludovic', which was changed upon his arrival in the United States in 1930 with his mother, Rose-ita, older brother, Maxim (Mel)"
"Edward Albee's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" is highly reminiscent of ""The Dance of Death"", as is Harry Kondoleon's sparring match between angry and spiritually despairing couples, ""The Houseguests"". John Guare credited a production of Strindberg's play at the Royal National Theatre as an influence on his play ""The House of Blue Leaves"". The Dance of Death (Strindberg play) The Dance of Death () refers to two plays, ""The Dance of Death I"", and ""The Dance of Death II"", both written by August Strindberg in 1900. Part one was written in September, and then, after receiving a response to the"
"Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( ; March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as ""The Zoo Story"" (1958), ""The Sandbox"" (1959), ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" (1962), and ""A Delicate Balance"" (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. His works are often considered as frank examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights"
"Appius and Virginia Appius and Virginia is an early 17th-century stage play, a tragedy by John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood). It is the third and least famous of his tragedies, after ""The White Devil"" and ""The Duchess of Malfi"". On the basis of his distinctive Latinate vocabulary, Heywood has been suggested as a part-author of the play, though some commentators disagree. (Heywood has also been proposed as a part-author of Webster and Rowley's ""A Cure for a Cuckold"".) No definite evidence on the play's date of origin or early performance history has survived. Scholars have conjectured dates of authorship"
"and Mexico City. In 2018 the Elevator Repair Service premiered a sequel written by Kate Scelsa, titled ""Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf"". This play introduces new plot elements such as vampirism. ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" won both the 1963 Tony Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. Its stars won the 1963 Tony Awards for Best Actor and Actress as well. It was also selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Drama by that award's drama jury. However, the award's advisory board – the trustees of Columbia University – objected"
"his frustration and insecurity, he learns that Gillian keeps critical notes on their lovemaking; he becomes even more paralyzed. Gillian and Jack, like George and Martha in ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,"" play ritual games to express and contain their sense of life-disappointment. In the middle of the play, the couple starts fighting with each other, clawing, punching and biting, even after they fall on the floor. Exhausted by the fighting, they start to talk about the memorable times in their life. However, Gillian is determined to return to the previous insults and tells Jack he is not the only"
"Sandy Dennis Sandra Dale Dennis (April 27, 1937 – March 2, 1992) was an American theater and film actress. At the height of her career in the 1960s she won two Tony Awards, as well as an Oscar for her performance in ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" Sandy Dennis, Anne Bancroft, Zoe Caldwell, Viola Davis, Colleen Dewhurst, Maureen Stapleton, Irene Worth, Audra McDonald, and Laurie Metcalf are the only winners of Tony Awards for both Best Actress in a Play and Best Featured Actress in a Play. Dennis was born in Hastings, Nebraska, the daughter of Yvonne (née Hudson), a"
"(2010), and Richard Greenberg's ""Our Mother's Brief Affair"" (2009) MacKinnon directed three plays by Horton Foote under the umbrella title of ""Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote"" for Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, New York City, with performances running from July-September 2012. MacKinnon directed a production of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago with performances starting in December 2010. She directed the production on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, which ran from September 2012 (previews) to March 3, 2013. MacKinnon won the Tony Award, Best Direction of a Play. MacKinnon directed the 2014 Broadway revival"
"Afraid of Virginia Woolf) will direct the World Premiere production starring Ellen Burstyn and John Glover with Scenic Design by David Gallo (Tony Award-winner, The Drowsy Chaperone), Costume Design by Emily Rebholz (Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson), Lighting Design by Dans Sheehan (AlIce The Magnet; Hedda Gabler), and Sound Design by Brendan Connelly (Co-Founder, Obie Award-winning Theater of the Two-headed Calf). The NY times compliments the play for its ""Savagely funny dialogue"", The NY Post compliments Katz saying his writing is reminiscent of ""Vintage Woody Allen"" The Post adds, the play is ""An excellent new dark comedy."", ""Delightfully twisted...Enjoyable."" (Talkin Broadway),"
"the second season on ""Chicago P.D."" Tony Awards Drama Desk Awards Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago, IL) Helen Hayes Awards (Washington DC) Amy Morton Amy Morton (born January 1, 1958 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American actress and director, best known for her work in theatre. Morton was nominated two times for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performances in """" and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"". On screen, she is known for her performances in films ""Rookie of the Year"" (1993), ""Up In The Air"" (2009), ""The Dilemma"" (2011) and ""Bluebird"" (2013). In 2014,"
"literature."" His brilliance was quickly recognized and mentored by such teachers as John Joseph, Charles Rice, and Sandy Lehmann. He was made managing editor of ""The Lit"" and for two years a large part of its content, in all genres, was supplied by him. Incidents from Albee's time at Choate are reworked for his plays, including the famous ""bergin and water"" speech in ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"" and the ""walking crow"" speech in ""Tiny Alice"", which reproduces almost verbatim English teacher Lehmann's criticism of a sonnet Albee wrote for ""The Lit"". The May 1946 Commencement issue of ""The Lit"""
"Uta Hagen Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was an American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" by Edward Albee (who called her ""a profoundly truthful actress""). Because Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in part because of her association with Paul Robeson, her film opportunities dwindled and she focused her career on New York theatre. She later became a highly influential acting teacher at New York's Herbert Berghof Studio and authored best-selling acting texts, ""Respect for Acting"", with Haskel Frankel,"
"adaptation of ""The Girl Who Cried Wolfe"" from July 20th through the 28th, 2018. The production swaps the genders of all of the characters, including Nero, who becomes Vera Wolfe, and Archie, who becomes Audrey Goodwin. The piece will be performed along with an Arsene Lupin story and an adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Final Problem"" as part of the troupe's summer mystery series, this year called ""Moriarty's Mysteries"". Nero Wolfe Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and"
"Roberta Levitow, Charles Newell, Roman Paska, Mary B. Robinson, David Saint, Joel Sass and Darko Tresnjak. Alan Schneider Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions. In 1984 he was honored with a Drama Desk Special Award for serving a wide range of playwrights. He directed the 1956 American premiere of Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"", Edward Albee's ""Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and ""Tiny Alice""; the American première of Joe Orton's ""Entertaining Mr Sloane"", Harold Pinter's ""The Birthday Party"", as well as Pinter's ""The Dumb Waiter"","
"play, ""The Zoo Story"", which was written in three weeks, was first staged in Berlin in 1959 before eventually premiering Off-Broadway in 1960. His next play, ""The Death of Bessie Smith"", similarly premiered in Berlin before arriving in New York. Albee's most iconic play, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", opened on Broadway at the Billy Rose Theatre on October 13, 1962, and closed on May 16, 1964, after five previews and 664 performances. The controversial play won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1963 and was selected for the 1963 Pulitzer Prize by the award's drama jury, but was"
"The House of the Wolf The House of the Wolf is a Gothic horror novel by author Basil Copper. It was published by Arkham House in 1983 in an edition of 3,578 copies. It was the author's fourth book published by Arkham House. The book contains a number of interior black and white illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian. In 2014 Valancourt Books reissued ""The House of the Wolf"" with Fabian's illustrations and a new introduction by Stephen Jones. The story, a Victorian thriller, involves Professor John Coleridge, who is a guest at Castle Homolky, situated above the tiny Hungarian village"
"The House of the Wolf The House of the Wolf is a Gothic horror novel by author Basil Copper. It was published by Arkham House in 1983 in an edition of 3,578 copies. It was the author's fourth book published by Arkham House. The book contains a number of interior black and white illustrations by Stephen E. Fabian. In 2014 Valancourt Books reissued ""The House of the Wolf"" with Fabian's illustrations and a new introduction by Stephen Jones. The story, a Victorian thriller, involves Professor John Coleridge, who is a guest at Castle Homolky, situated above the tiny Hungarian village"
"George has decided to ""kill"" him because Martha broke the game's single rule: never mention their son to others. Overcome with horror and pity, Nick and Honey leave. Martha suggests they could invent a new imaginary child, but George forbids the idea, saying it was time for the game to end. The play ends with George singing, ""Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" to Martha, whereupon she replies, ""I am, George...I am."" While other plays establish the difference between reality and illusion, ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" starts out with the latter but leans to the former. More specifically, ""George and"
"Awards: including six for Best Director of either a play or a musical, one for Best Play, and one for Best Musical. In 1966, Nichols was a star stage director and ""Time"" magazine called him ""the most in-demand director in the American theatre."" Although he had no experience in filmmaking, after befriending Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Warner Bros. invited Nichols to direct a screen adaptation of Edward Albee's ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, and Sandy Dennis. The film was critically acclaimed, with critics calling Nichols ""the new Orson Welles"", and a financial"
"those profounder and more poetic tragedies..."" Other critics have rendered harsher judgements, regarding the play's black-and-white morality as simplistic and uninteresting compared to Webster's other, more complex tragedies. Appius and Virginia Appius and Virginia is an early 17th-century stage play, a tragedy by John Webster (and perhaps Thomas Heywood). It is the third and least famous of his tragedies, after ""The White Devil"" and ""The Duchess of Malfi"". On the basis of his distinctive Latinate vocabulary, Heywood has been suggested as a part-author of the play, though some commentators disagree. (Heywood has also been proposed as a part-author of Webster"
"Alan Schneider Alan Schneider (December 12, 1917 – May 3, 1984) was an American theatre director responsible for more than 100 theatre productions. In 1984 he was honored with a Drama Desk Special Award for serving a wide range of playwrights. He directed the 1956 American premiere of Samuel Beckett's ""Waiting for Godot"", Edward Albee's ""Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" and ""Tiny Alice""; the American première of Joe Orton's ""Entertaining Mr Sloane"", Harold Pinter's ""The Birthday Party"", as well as Pinter's ""The Dumb Waiter"", ""The Collection"", and a trilogy of Pinter's plays under the title ""Other Places"" (including ""One for"
"1978, stages a series of interpretations of William Faulkner's The Bear as a simultaneous demonstration and critique of critical pluralism. In his later book, ""Get The Guests: Psychoanalysis, Modern American Drama, and the Audience"", Davis takes a more psychoanalytic approach, analyzing in depth five American plays--""The Iceman Cometh"", ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Death of a Salesman"", ""Long Day's Journey into Night"", and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf""—in terms of their psychological impact upon the audience. Critic Frank Lentricchia called Davis's ""Get The Guests"" ""unparalleled"" and wrote of the author, ""Davis is a man of the theatre, he reads plays as"
"Wolf (1994 film) Wolf is a 1994 American romantic horror film directed by Mike Nichols and starring Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Eileen Atkins, David Hyde Pierce and Om Puri. It was written by Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick, and an uncredited Elaine May. The music was composed by Ennio Morricone and the cinematography was done by Giuseppe Rotunno. Will Randall is bitten by a wolf while driving home in Vermont. Afterwards, he is demoted from editor-in-chief of a publishing house when it is taken over by tycoon Raymond Alden, who replaces him"
"that led Jack Valenti to begin work on the MPAA film rating system that went into effect on November 1, 1968. It is also said that Jack L. Warner chose to pay a fine of $5,000 in order to remain as faithful to the play (with its profanity) as possible. ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"" premiered on June 21, 1966, at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, California. The film went on to become a financial success, earning a North American rental gross of $10.3 million in 1966. The film was first released on DVD in North America on October 1,"
"""Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings"" and ""In with the Flynns"". He also appeared as a union official in ""Brassed Off"" and as a school teacher in ""Rita, Sue and Bob Too"". In 1978 he was a night school teacher in Alan Bennett's play ""Me—I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf"". On BBC Radio 4 he has acted in plays lasting from 15 to 90 minutes. BBC Radio Lancashire has broadcast many of his pre-recorded series, such as ""Wrigley's Ramblings"" and ""Home Brewed"", and his readings of many stories written by Tommy Thompson. As a writer he has released various combinations of"
"The Warrens of Virginia (play) The Warrens of Virginia is a dramatic play set during the American Civil War by playwright William C. de Mille. It was produced on Broadway by David Belasco in 1907 and was the basis for two films in 1915 (directed by the playwright's brother, Cecil B. DeMille) and in 1924. The play was also the basis for a novelization by author George Cary Eggleston in 1908. ""The Warrens of Virginia"" premiered in New York at the Belasco Theater (formerly the Stuyvesant Theater) on December 3, 1907. The production ran for a total of 380 performances,"
"the lawsuit. Wolf won the decision in July 2005, receiving between $180,000 and $400,000 in damages. Gary K. Wolf Gary K. Wolf (born January 24, 1941) is an American author. He is best known as the author of ""Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"" (1981), which was adapted into the hit feature-length film ""Who Framed Roger Rabbit"" (1988). Wolf was born on January 24, 1941. He grew up in Earlville, Illinois, the son of Ed and Hattie Wolf. His father owned the town’s pool hall and later had an upholstering business, while his mother worked in the school cafeteria. As an only"